pressure cooker
Example Sentences
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The piñas must get to a pressure cooker within 24 hours, where the sugars can be extracted.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
He said schools had become "a pressure cooker", adding the survey of its members "paints a picture of a system under severe strain".
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Tax preparation is a seasonal business — and a hectic pressure cooker.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
The women were cooking and I could smell onions frying already, could hear the phht-phht of a pressure cooker, music, laughter.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
